• For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

  Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 43

  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil 1934-1992
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. scrutinize
2. language
3. truth
4. speak
5. which

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For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it. by : Audre Lorde

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